Orange Bay Estate

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Associated People (7)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1748 [EA] - 1748 [LA] → Joint owner

In his will made in 1748 and proved in 1752, Colin Campbell left his moiety or half-share of the Fish River and Orange Bay estates to his son Colin Campbell.

1748 [EA] - 1748 [LA] → Joint owner

At the time Colin Campbell of made his will of St George Hanover Square in 1748, leaving half of the Orange Bay estate to his son also named Colin, the other half of the estate appears to have belonged to John Campbell of Orange Bay, then a minor, who inherited from his father James Campbell (who d. 1744). It is not yet known when ownership was united.

1810 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
1825 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Trust beneficiary
1826 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Trustee and Executor
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney

Associated Claims (1)

£5,574 15S 3D

Estate Information (24)

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1763
[Name] Orange Bay  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in Hanover in Thomas Craskell's 1763 map of Jamaica as a sugar estate with a cattle mill.

 
Thomas Craskell's Map of the County of Surry in the Island of Jamaica (1763)
1799
[Name] Orange Bay  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted In Hanover as a sugar estate with a cattle mill and a windmill in James Robertson's 1804 map of Jamaica.

 
To the King's most excellent Majesty, this map of the island of Jamaica, constructed from actual surveys. . . (London, J. Robertson, 1804), based on Robertson's survey of the county of Cornwall which he compeleted in 1799.
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 676(Tot)  
[Name] Maggoty and Orange Bay  
[Stock] 323  
 

Registered to John Blackgrove.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Hanov.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1810, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 674(Tot)  
[Name] Orange Bay etc.  
[Stock] 113  
 

Registered to John Blackgrove [sic]. Assumed to include Maggotty.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812co2.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 318(Tot)  
[Name] Orange-Bay  
[Stock] 111  
 

Registered to John Blagrove.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 322(Tot) 170(F) 152(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In possession of George Mackay, Esquire, attorney to John Blagrove Esquire, the owner.

 
T71/190 56-61
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 320(Tot)  
[Name] Orange Bay  
 

Registered to John Blagrove.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 323(Tot)  
[Name] Orange Bay  
[Stock] 90  
 

Registered to John Blagrove.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 317(Tot)  
[Name] Orange Bay Estate  
 

In the possession of George McKay as attorney to John Blagrove Esquire the owner of Orange Bay Estate.

 
T71/191 33-34
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 309(Tot)  
[Name] Orange Bay  
[Stock] 85  
 

Registered to John Blagrove.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 309(Tot)  
[Name] Orange Bay  
[Stock] 38  
 

Registered to John Blagrove.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 305(Tot)  
[Name] Orange Bay Estate  
 

In the possession of George Mackay as attorney to John Blagrove the owner.

 
T71/192 28-29
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 297(Tot)  
[Name] Orange Bay  
[Stock] 76  
 

Registered to John Blagrove.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 277(Tot)  
[Name] Orange Bay  
[Stock] 83  
 

Registered to J. W. Blagrove.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 284(Tot) 139(F) 144(M)  
[Name] Orange Bay Estate  
 

In the possession of James Deans attorney of Hugh Parkin Esq. & the committee of the person and estate of John Williams Blagrove Esq. a lunatic.

 
T71/193 52-53
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 269(Tot)  
[Name] Orange Bay  
[Stock] 16  
 

Registered to J. W. Blagrove.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 281(Tot)  
[Name] Orange Bay  
 

Registered to J. W. Bingrove.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 270(Tot)  
[Name] Orange Bay  
 

Registered to J. W. Blagrove.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 276(Tot)  
[Name] Orange Bay Estate  
 

In the possession of James Deans attorney to Hugh Parkin Esquire & the committee of the person and estate of John Williams Blagrove esquire the owner.

 
T71/194 16
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 264(Tot)  
[Name] Orange Bay  
[Stock] 5  
 

Registered to John William Bingrove.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 216(Tot)  
[Name] Orange Bay  
 

Registered to John William Blagrove.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 266(Tot)  
[Name] Orange Bay Estate  
 

In the possession of James Deans as attorney to Hugh Parkin the Committee of the person and estate of John (sp?) Williams Blagrave Esq. Owner.

 
T71/199 166
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 259(Tot)  
[Name] Orange Bay  
[Stock] 10  
 

Registered to John W. Blagrove.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Hanov.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1839
[Name] Orange Bay  
[Size] 2090  
 

Registered to J. W. Blagrove.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Hanover.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.